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S.  R.  A. — B.   S.   15.  Issued  August  1,  1917 

U.  S.  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE. 

BUREAU  OF  BIOLOGICAL  SURVEY. 

E.  \V.  Nelson,  Chief  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


AMENDMENTS  TO  REGULATIONS  FOR  THE  PROTECTION  OF  DEER, 
MOOSE,  CARIBOU,  SHEEP,  AND  MOUNTAIN  GOATS  IN  ALASKA. 

[Approved  July  23,   1917.] 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture by  section  2  of  the  act  of  May  11,  1908  (35  Stat.,  102),  en- 
titled "An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  'An  act  for  the  protection  of 
game  in  Alaska,  and  for  other  purposes,'  approved  June  7,  1902," 
regulation  5  of  the  Regulations  for  the  Protection  of  Deer.  Moose, 
Caribou,  Sheep,  and  Mountain  Goats  in  Alaska,  approved  July  24-, 
1916,  is  hereby  amended,  effective  August  1,  1917,  to  read  as  follows: 

REGULATION   5.— DEER   ON   CERTAIN  ISLANDS. 

The  killing  of  deer  on  Kodiak  Island  and  Long  Island,  and  the  killing  of 
deer  on  the  following  islands  in  southeastern  Alaska  :  Duke  Island,  near  Dixon 
Inlet;  Gravina  Island,  near  Ketchikan;  Kruzof  Island,  west  of  Sitka;  San  Juan 
Island  and  Suemez  Island,  near  Klaw;  k  :  and  Zerembo  Island,  near  Wrangell,  is 
hereby  prohibited  until  August  1.  1918;  and  the  killing  of  deer  on  the  islands 
of  Hinchinhrook  and  Montague,  in  Prince  William  Sound,  is  hereby  prohibited 
until  August  1,  1919. 

The  said  Regulations  for  the  Protection  of  Deer,  Moose,  Caribou, 
Sheep,  and  Mountain  Goats  in  Alaska,  approved  July  24,  1916,  are 
hereby  further  amended,  effective  August  1,  1917,  by  the  addition 
of  a  regulation  numbered  9,  as  follows : 

REGULATION  9.— EWES  AND   LAMBS. 

The  killing  of  female  mountain  sheep  or  Lambs  on  the  Kenai  Peninsula  and 
in  that  part  of  Alaska  north  of  latitude  00°  and  west  of  longitude  141°  is 
hereby  prohibited  until  August  1,  1919. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the 
seal  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture  to  be  affixed  this  23d  day  of 
July,  1917. 

[seal.]  D.  F.  Houston, 

Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

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